Purpose of the Conference
The goal of the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Conference on Undergraduate Mathematics is to spotlight and
celebrate the accomplishments and work of undergraduate mathematicians. We typically invite three talks from
professional mathematicians, but all other talks are contributed by undergraduate students on mathematical topics.
Appropriate material for contributed talks runs the gamut from challenging class projects to expository talks on
interesting mathematical topics to work done with a faculty member or research done in an REU.

We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of The Mathematical Association of America,
(www.maa.org/)
provided by NSF grant DMS-0846477, through the MAA Regional Undergraduate Mathematics Conferences Program.

We would like to thank Addison Wesley (Pearson), Cengage Learning, Corwin Press, Duxbury, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Jones & Barlett Learning, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Pearson Education, Prentice Hall, Sage Publishing, SAS Press, Walker Books, W.H. Freeman, and Wiley publishers for their generous donation of books for the textbook giveaway. We are also grateful to Minitab, Maplesoft, and the MAA for their generous donations of software and other goodies.